Natalie Portman Quotes
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Sometimes people's reactions tell more about themselves.
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As I look back on it, I'm glad that I had this false image. I was who everyone else - my parents, my friends, society - wanted me to be. I was a pleaser, someone who wanted to make everyone happy, to not let anyone down. Now, I'm not like that.
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I think the press is doing a wonderful job of putting the pressure on the decision-makers in Hollywood to support more female directors.
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I love stoner comedies. I smoked weed in college, but I haven't smoked in years.
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Donald Trump wants to punish women for getting abortions and defund Planned Parenthood.
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I'm with my friends more than I'm with my parents, but I know more about my parents than I know about my friends. That's something you get out of living with a person.
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Guys have guy/girl relationships so that they can have their own guy thing plus the sensitive thing with the girl.
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Even Donald Trump presence was bullying, was lurking, and was just mainly creepy.
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The fact that audiences have come away moved, excited, entertained and stimulated by the film is extraordinarily flattering.
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You see the amount of bullying and negativity that goes on social media that is really, really intense, and I feel lucky that I came of age before all of that came on.
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I think people who aren't in film experience that when they hear their voice on an answering machine or something.
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While Domald Trump chose a running mate, Mike Pence, who wrote a letter to an Indianapolis newspaper about how women shouldn't work because it's bad for the family. So we're really facing such a stark contrast between the candidates. Not to mention the vulgarity that Trump has been spouting about women for his entire life and continues to throughout his campaign. It's just a different world that we'd be living in if he won.
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Pointe shoes are torture devices. I mean, ballerinas get used to it, but it was definitely a new experience for me. They feel medieval. I was very happy to stop wearing them.
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I think you always need to be able to relate to your characters, but that doesn't necessarily mean...you have to understand why they do what they do, but you don't actually have to be like that yourself.
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If you're listening to music, then the music is your friend; or if you're with a person, then that person can be your friend because you're communicating.
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Part of my reason for being vegetarian was because it practices respect and love for life all through the day, so three times a day, you make a decision to eat things that have not been killed.
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There are still vestiges of societal limitations on women. I tend to think that has to do with opportunities that are available - it says a lot that it's still sometimes the best opportunity for a woman to be able to advance herself.
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Microcredit is about giving hope.
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Use Starbucks mints for every occasion—they're the strongest.
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Grab the good people around you. Don't let them go.
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It doesn't matter if you mean to do the right thing - if you only do bad things. You need to learn how to do right things. Doing is what affects people.
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I think that's the real shame: We spent the last 48 hours talking about these disgusting, disgusting comments and disgusting behavior instead of talking about hurricane relief or what's going on in Flint, Michigan. It's just appalling to have to be dealing with such nonsense and such disgusting, you know, criminal speech.
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I think the opportunities are all over the place - around your corner or in more exotic locales. But everyone finding their own interest - sometimes it's hard to know what you're interested in, I think.
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It's a big honour to have people be excited about a movie that you make. That's the one thing that you want.